NCT04445818

More Appreciation and Less Criticism Project

A Pilot Intervention Study to Increase Appreciation and Reduce Criticism Among Families in Hong Kong

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 803 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The project "More Appreciation and Less Criticism Project" (MALC) is a collaboration between the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (TWGHs) and the School of Public Health of The University of Hong Kong (HKUSPH), funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. The objectives are to develop and test theory-driven group programmes to increase parents' intention and actual behaviours to express more appreciation or less criticism when interacting with their children, thereby enhancing family harmony and happiness.

Detailed description

This study is a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) with three arms: More Appreciation (MA), Less Criticism and Fruit and Vegetable (FV) group. Clusters, mostly schools, are the unit of random allocation to one of the three arms. Participants from all three arms will be assessed a total of four times, i.e. baseline (before the intervention workshop; (T1), immediate post-workshop (T2), 2-week post-workshop (T3) and 6-week post-workshop (T4). "Fruit and vegetable consumption" is a subsidiary study to the More Appreciation and Less Criticism (MALC) Project. The study will take advantage of the cluster RCT design adopted by the MALC study, and aims at testing the active HAPA-based intervention (increasing fruit and vegetable intervention) delivered to the MALC control group. The fruit and vegetable group will serve as the intervention arm, and the groups that received interventions regarding increasing appreciation or decreasing criticism, served as the control arms.

Conditions

• Parenting
• Family Research
• Family

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	More appreciation
BEHAVIORAL	Less criticism
BEHAVIORAL	More Fruit and Vegetable

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-04-01
• Primary completion: 2013-05-31
• Completion: 2013-05-31
• First posted: 2020-06-24
• Last updated: 2020-06-24